Novel Study Slides - Term 3

Heya.

Welcome back to another blog post. Yes, yes, I know. I haven't been doing that much blogs lately. But that's my fault. I wasn't doing the right thing. Anyways, today I'll be sharing with you my, 'Novel Study Slides' basically, I don't actually remember If i actually told you this, but we got given books based on we, you know what? I think I did. So yeah, we then had to do a Slide, or in other words, it was basically a recap on our book. Anyways without any more talk. Here we go, enjoy!

So yeah, in our slide, well, EACH SLIDE, we had to do a different task. In the first one, we had to write a whole paragraph about our novel. In that paragraph, we had to annotate the: Setting, we had to share points that may be vital to the story's conflict, or resolution. I think i did pretty good. i covered all the points, I told the setting, etc. So here it is. -

"The setting takes place in New Zealand, back in the 1920’s. In ‘Briden Orphanage’ in May. Kenny, and her sister, Char, were put in the orphanage, by their mother, because, she had to do something. Gustache, and Matron are the two horrible people who run it, torching the kids by giving not giving them the stuff they need. Kenny has always looked up to his Dad, his Dad died quite some time ago, but Kenny got taught boxing lessons the taught him to defend himself. They are freed by their Aunty Ivy, who is a kind, loving Aunty who is always there when needed, also they’re there with their Uncle Alf, their Dad’s brother. Before Kenny got… adopted by his aunt, he saw Gustache and Someone wearing a cap, taking boxes outta Gustache’s car, and locking it in some kind of shed. Kenny had been suspicious, and wanted to know what was in those boxes. News came around that one lady has lost their vase, or in other words, stolen.

Back at school, Kenny was framed of theft, Mr. Smelly set this up for him to look guilty, by putting a 5 dollar note in his draw, etc, etc. Kenny and his gang. (Char, his loyal sister, Max, his loved, cousin, Ed, their disabled neighbour, and Matilda, an enemy, but now a ally who has a beautiful sister, and lives in a lolly shop) Kenny now knows Smelly was the man in the cap. They go to the shed, break in, and find boxes fulled with all the stolen stuff.  Jewellery, Vases, etc. Gustache and Smelly busts them. Char, Matilda, and Ed escape. While Kenny and Max are tied up. Gustache/Smelly plan to throw them in a Lake, to make in look like an accident. While their un-tieing them, Max kicks Smelly in the face, causing an Epic fight. Kenny, grabbing on to Gustache wrestle on the ground. After a few moments, Char and their pet dog come outta now where and save them. They run home, Gustache and Smelly caught, Kenny is now happy. Although, before, they got given a box with all of their Dads treasure. Like a bible and such. Him and Char got through all the treasures, and remember all the good times. They are now sad, but also happy. THE END"

That's about it... sorry if that's a bit too long, but, I really tried. Anyways, onto the next slide!

So on this slide, we had to make a google drawing on how we visualise the setting. For an example, if your setting took place in a... school. Then make a google drawing, by putting shapes and stuff like that to form a school. You can also add different detail. Once you've done your drawing, you gotta point a arrow (For example, point a arrow towards the school) then label what it is. So if you've put a tree on your drawing, label that, tree. Enough explaining! Here's my drawing -

I know, I didn't put in that much effort, but I did make what I visualise. You may know why I did an orphanage. Because the paragraph I did said that's where they basically came from. That's, that done. Next slide.

This one was called, "Character Study" on this slide, using the template that the slide provided, we chose one character from our story, and wrote what we pictured what they looked, wrote the characteristics of our characters, and wrote the actions our character did. For my character, I did the main person in the story, that is Kenny. A brave little boy who goes on, CRAZY adventures. Enough of the explaining, here's what I did: (Actually, before I told you what I did, when I tell you what he looks like, I'm saying what I, ACTUALLY think he looks like, okay? Everything cleared up? Okay, on with the blog)

What does he look like? -
[Before I tell you, I got this information from the picture on the book, so yeah, I don't know if he does look like this, I just thought the picture on the book is Kenny, thanks, and here's what I put]

He wears a, Grey shirt, Black coat, and Grey coat. Looks like an absolute hero.

Actions (What does the character do?) -
My character is a leader of some, ‘Gang’ he does the most dangerous missions, takes his ‘gang’ on crazy adventures, he sticks up for his friends/family, he strives to do the right thing, to prove his innocents. He tries to bust Gustache and Smelly for stealing all the missing Jewellery, Vases, etc, all around town.

He beats up Gustache and Smelly (Along with other members of his ‘gang’) long story short, he goes on crazy adventures, does dangerous missions. Tries to convince that Gustache/smelly are the bad guy, and that’s about it.

Characteristics -

My character is really brave, all in other words, has guts. I wouldn’t say he’s kind. But, he does care for his family, and friends. He’s strong and always sticks up for one-another, and , like I said, strives to do the right thing. Sometimes he might be sad for his father or mother, but I know he stays strong. 

That's what I did for this one. I think I actually did good. All the points in the paragraphs are a match to the story, Kenny does do this, so yeah. Anyways, on with the next slide!

"Novels often have several problems throughout them. These are used to engage the reader and make them continue reading"

"Using screencastify, explain one problem that has occurred in your story"

I think you guys might know what I'm going to be doing. I got to do a screencastify. In this screencastify, I answered three questions, these were: 

"What is the background to your problem?"

"What rising action lead to the climax?"

"How did your character solve the problem?"

So yeah. My screencasitify, (I think) is about 2-3 minutes. I'm not sure, I forgot. Anyways, here's my screencastify - "You've got guts, Kenny Melrose | Screencastify"

So, before I move on, I didn't sound amused at all. I sounded sad, I think. I covered, well, answered the questions, but also did a full recap on the story. I think I did good, sure, It might of been a bit longer than I anticipated, but who cares. I did do the task, did I not? Let's just move onto the next slide.

LAST SLIDE! I know, I know! Amazing, we are onto the last slide. Now, for this one. We had to make a D.L.O (Basically, make like a quiz, or a comic strip, stuff like that) I chose a Quiz on, Quizizz. (Link to Quizizz) but the limit was 13 questions, so that's what I did. 

These are my questions:

"What month and year doe this book take place?"

"What is the name of the Orphanage?"

"What are the managers names?"

"Before school, what chores do the boys do?'

"What's Kenny's Aunty's name?"

"What did Kenny's Dad teach him before he died?"

"How many members does Kennys, 'Gang' consist of?"

"Where was his Uncle Alf injured?

"What did Mr. Smelly say to Kenny, that he'll never forget?"

"What is Kenny's cousins name?"

"What's the name of Max's neighbour?"

"How old is Charolette? (Kenny's sister)"

"During the time in the Orphanage, what is Kenny's favourite task to do?"

And... that's it. I think my Quiz is good. It has the 13 questions, all of them relate to the story, so yeah. Thank you!

What's your favourite book to read?

Anyways, thanks for reading my blogs. I could've done more detail on my stuff. Again, I'm sorry for not doing any blogs, that's my fault. So once again, thank you for reading. Thank you teachers for this task, really expresses on what you think of your book, and uh... 

PEACE!